Robert Hilburn Quotes

It's important to realize that everybody who went into country music, and most everybody who went into rock and roll in the '50s, they had no more goal than a hit on the jukebox. Johnny Cash, from the very beginning, had a goal that he wanted to make music that lifted people's spirits.

Robert Hilburn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 25, 1939

Topics

MusicBeginningPeopleRock And Roll

It's amazing how powerful a piece of work can be and how it can influence people and change. It's pretty interesting.

Mel Gibson

WorkChangePeopleAmazingInfluence

Being acknowledged by 'Vogue' and invited to do 'Today I'm Wearing' was a really great moment for me, and the photo diary of my outfits was a really fun thing to do.

Suki Waterhouse

TodayGreatMomentFunMeDiary

I don't think I would ever write and star in a show again.

Mike O'Malley

ThinkWriteStarShowWouldAgain

Sometimes sports serves as a reprieve from politics, and sometimes it serves as an extension of it.

Clint Smith

SportsPoliticsSometimesExtension

If you want to be the best, you can't take the path of least resistance. Every morning, you wake up, and your mind tells you it's too early, and your body tells you you're a little too sore, but you've got to look deep within yourself and know what you want and what you're striving for.

Antonio Brown

MorningPathBestYourselfMindYou

What is right is not always popular.

Allison Tolman

RightAlwaysPopular

I grew up in a household that was very close, very open, and always talking about what was going on with each other.

Tyler Ritter

TalkingAlwaysOpenUpGoingClose

I've played basketball all of my life, and I've had things happen on the court that you eventually have to move on from. It's part of some of the obstacles that you meet in trying to reach your pinnacle.

Scottie Pippen

LifeBasketballObstaclesMy Life

Whether your audience is in a sweaty basement club or nestled in a favourite armchair, good money has been paid, and attention has got to be grabbed if you are not to be heckled off the stage or find your novel discarded in favour of the latest volume of 'Fifty Shades of Whatever.'

Mark Billingham

GoodMoneyAttentionYouFindStage

I've learned that the perfect picture that I hold in my mind of what my life looks like is constantly changing, growing, evolving. I remind myself that I am exactly where I need to be in my life; otherwise, I would surely be somewhere else.

Leigh-Allyn Baker

LifeMyselfI AmMindMy LifeLooks

At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that's just my definition.

Kurt Busiek

CharacterNameMissionThreeOutUp

I was always putting songs on the Internet, but I was never into pushing them on anyone.

Kevin Parker

InternetNeverAlwaysPushingSongs

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